<html><body><div style="font-family: times new roman, new york, times, serif; font-size: 12pt; color: #000000"><div>I picked up a 32GB PNY USB stick off Amazon and decided to copy 22G of my development root onto it as backup. I develop on CentOS 5.7 in Ubuntu 12.04. How? chroot into that tree.</div><div><br></div><div>I have rsync scripts I use to backup RPis and BBBs to a 1T USB SATA device. I copied that onto the stick after I formated it ext3.</div><div><br></div><div>It was slow. Dog slow. My scripts are using options that would slow it down so I decided to do an initial seed using CP. That took almost a day to do.</div><div>Now the rsync script can get changes as I decide to.</div><div><br></div><div>I've never tried to copy a system that large to a USB stick . I've coped files, but not that many. The SATA 1T on USB is much faster. It is just a 1T SATA drive in a sled.</div><div><br></div><div>Is that the nature of these USB sticks? I'm just curious.</div><div><br></div><div>Chris</div></div></body></html>